Anna Kuznetsova

What is March 8th? It's spring, the sun, tulips, mom's smile and the anticipation of falling in love and happiness. There is also a fuss, congratulations, queues in shops, flowers and an endless race for gifts. Every year, on this day, there is a global collapse in which everything is dedicated to women. The most ordinary people who face extraordinary situations, and unplanned meetings radically change their lives.

Lera is a star Moscow obstetrician and a proponent of natural childbirth. One of her clients is Masha, the young mistress of influential businessman Shakhov. She is expected to give birth to his long-awaited heir, but due to complications during childbirth, the baby is born in critical condition. Shakhov initiates an investigation, the outcome of which will determine the fate of not only the clinic but also Lera herself — the main suspect in the tragedy.

Tanya, a young educator, accompanies twelve teenagers to a theatre festival in Sochi under the supervision of Maria Genrikhovna, an experienced head teacher. Initially, there's little sympathy between the two teachers. However, they discover a deeper bond in much more fundamental things: aversion to marching in formation and other forms of officialism. Their ability to find joy even in challenging situations unites them.

Vera knows exactly what paradise looks like – it's the shabby assembly hall of the district recreation center, where the children's and youth theater of the city of Oldinsk is based. But Vera is no longer 14. By the age of 30, all that remains to her from her acting youth are memories, meetings of "graduates" once a year, and love for the director of this very theater, who for some reason successfully survived the end of puberty, and Vera's marriage, and the birth of a child. But maybe you can return to heaven if you turn childhood love into a real adult romance?

The client of the star midwife Lena becomes the mistress of the influential businessman Shakhov. Complications arise during childbirth, and the child is born in an extremely serious condition. They are trying to blame Lera for what happened, and her fate now depends on the investigation initiated by the businessman himself.

Nafset, 28, now lives in Moscow and calls herself a Man of Peace. Nafset is blind from birth. She also performed solo at the closing ceremony of the Paralympics in Sochi. Nafset is flying to Maykop to give a concert and receive the title of Honored Artist. She will meet with relatives, journalists, officials of all stripes, the local symphony orchestra and the audience. For them, she is not a Person of the World at all, she is her own, local, Adyghe. The heritage of the republic. But is this role acceptable to Nafset herself?

The collected novels of the almanac reflect the picture of the world as it is seen by modern people — as a systematic and no longer surprising chaos, through which you need to wade, preferably with your head held high. In such a world, women's variability and the ability to instantly change their decision to the exact opposite is no longer a disadvantage, but an advantage. According to the authors of the almanac, it is the ability to change your mind that makes a woman a heroine of today. Because in a world that has gone completely mad, there is no place for final decisions.

18-year-old Sasha is in love with her dorm neighbor and passionately hates the latter’s boyfriend, Egor, who illegally lives in their room. More than anything, Sasha wants to get rid of Egor — at any cost. She doesn’t know yet that sometimes a dream coming true is the worst that can happen.